Example sentences of "[subord] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a period of ‘ cooling ’ care seems inevitable , a ‘ planned care experience ’ , with set deadlines and clear outcomes , is recommended . |
| 2 | An example occurs in a more recent film , When Harry Met Sally … ( 1989 ) , where a period feel is aimed at in the earlier parts of the film though the period is as recent as 1983 . |
| 3 | Where a period of time is to run " from " a specified date , the specified date is excluded in calculating the period . |
| 4 | Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated . |
| 5 | More than a period piece — it dates from 1924 — it may throw light on the view of marriage that led to Humanae Vitae . |
| 6 | A defence lawyer may not be brought in until a period of " six months has elapsed . |
| 7 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 8 | If a period has been missed and there is a possibility of pregnancy when severe or unusual pains develop with or without any blood flow . |
| 9 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 10 | But after a period of sheer copying , some themes took off . |
| 11 | After a period of being grounded on the Shag Rocks , it has now confounded weather experts by drifting west , directly towards the Falklands . |
| 12 | Again and again , users , after a period of about fifteen years , suddenly decide to leave . |
| 13 | After a period of months , water finds its way into even the innermost air spaces , and the pumice becomes waterlogged and finally sinks . |
| 14 | After a period of normal grieving , my mother , who was then 74 , decided that she wanted to travel from Norwich to Northamptonshire to visit me , a journey of about 100 miles . |
| 15 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 16 | After a period of peripheral circulatory failure there is a danger of |
| 17 | After a period of training , co-counsellors are paired off , and thereafter act as both counsellor and client to each other . |
| 18 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 19 | After a period of activity and shouting it is surprisingly easy to introduce a game like ‘ dead lions ’ ( p.39 ) and have all the children being as quiet as they can be . |
| 20 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 21 | After a period employers start to wonder why job searches have not been successful . |
| 22 | Once you have established the rule of taking a membership count each year , after a period of time you will be able to represent these figures on a graph to compare one year with another . |
| 23 | But after a period of intense pressure Kiwi Ropati tried a speculative grubber kick close to the Bradford try line . |
| 24 | Again , after a period of closure , this company improved its pollution control . |
| 25 | After a period of nearly two hours , the doctor finally pronounced the woman dead and the stoning ceased . |
| 26 | After a period of exposure to grazing one can then test for the frequency of the various types of damage to clover leaves with the different genotypes and afterwards reconfirm the cyanogenic or acyanogenic status of the plant ( Fig. 16.7 ) . |
| 27 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 28 | After a period of full-time child-care , many women return to paid employment on a part-time basis . |
| 29 | When , after a period of confusion , subjects began to realize , or were told , that there were anomalous cards among the pack ; they then had no trouble correctly identifying all the cards shown to them , anomalous or otherwise . |
| 30 | After a period supporting Coastal Command based at Predannock , Cornwall , in 1943 Braham was switched to the experimental task of escorting bomber streams over Europe . |